- 261. RE: Quick Data Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 09:51:30 -0500
- the connectors Keith is talking about are on the "computer" side of the TC field amps; their function is only as electrical conductors. The field amps themselves provide the TC "reference junction",
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00137.html (9,774 bytes)
- 262. RE: Quick Data Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:32:31 -0500
- missed your point about starting the water cold, then boiling-- in my first reply. Yeah, that would of course give you richer data-- although (during the temperature increasing phase) you might have
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00139.html (9,831 bytes)
- 263. RE: Quick Data Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 23:10:26 -0500
- If you are talking about the infrared radiometers (non-contact; Raytek seems the most popular brand among the car people)-- then-- when used on tires or asphalt-- the accuracy potential is VERY GOOD
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00153.html (10,468 bytes)
- 264. RE: The concept of Data? (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 23:14:58 -0500
- your comments to Keith and Dave re the potiential for UNRELIBILITY, non-repeatability of the data-- are exactly what I think we need to be concerned about (NOT small but repeatable bias or imprecisi
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00154.html (8,715 bytes)
- 265. RE: Quick Data Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:25:49 -0500
- I agree those furnaces are a little big to calibrate sensors with! How long does it take to stabilize a big temperature change, anyway? Hours, I'll bet. The sort of simulation you mention should be
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00175.html (11,122 bytes)
- 266. RE: One More soapbox (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 00:38:26 -0500
- I agree that anyone over 50 should get on a colonoscopy schedule. Recently, though, I have heard a warning for us all: "Never get a colonoscopy from a doctor with prison tatoos." (I suppose that war
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00186.html (8,832 bytes)
- 267. RE: One More soapbox (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 04:17:44 -0500
- leave it to you! Wish I'd thought of that one. Sure is hard to figure-out any way to be cool, under those circumstances. Russ, #1226B I was going to try to restrain myself and show some good taste,
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00199.html (8,503 bytes)
- 268. RE: Quick Data Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 13:25:01 -0500
- I know all this stuff. I have lectured on it, and published several papers. In my "corporate" days, I represented the U.S. to I.S.O. in Industrial Heat Flow, and in Infrared Thermography. Everybody
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00266.html (10,359 bytes)
- 269. RE: The concept of Data? (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 13:32:43 -0500
- I have a class that I sometimes give for instrument techs that uses exactly this analogy. Russ, #1226B PS- what I'm most concerned about is the "gun" that shoots a tight group in the first ring one
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00267.html (8,706 bytes)
- 270. RE: Quick Data Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:03:42 -0500
- as you will have seen from my reply to Dr. Mayf, there are a lot of ways to consider testing the system, and I (or anyone) would be guessing about priorities, until we get some data to think about.
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00269.html (10,142 bytes)
- 271. RE: Quick Data Connectors (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 23:09:48 -0500
- I heard you the first time about the exhaust temps and tuning. O.K., I know you've had a lot of experience in that, and you may be absolutely right. If so-- then what's the point of using ETs? I can
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00275.html (10,004 bytes)
- 272. RE: The concept of Data? (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 22:03:34 -0500
- of course. I don't know who started using the "target" analogy to explain precision and bias, but it has been "out there" for a while. Russ, #1226B "PS- what I'm most concerned about is the "gun" th
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00292.html (8,372 bytes)
- 273. RE: The concept of Data? (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 03:59:17 -0500
- my approach, too. "The first law of troubleshooting"-- ask what was CHANGED. In my experience, too many times the "what" has been the TC field amp. And now the system won't operate the same way at t
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00325.html (9,203 bytes)
- 274. RE: hypersonic LSR (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 04:13:19 -0500
- I remember talk of the "blown" wing, also, but never learned enough to understand how it is supposed to work. Some time ago there were experiments doing the opposite-- sucking the turbulent boundary
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00326.html (9,222 bytes)
- 275. RE: hypersonic LSR (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 02:02:29 -0500
- I remember reading about the "blown airfoils" that you describe here. Way impressive, aeronautically-speaking; makes the wing think it is going a lot faster than the speed of the plane. Not obvious
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00335.html (10,294 bytes)
- 276. RE: hypersonic LSR (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 02:24:19 -0500
- John S., Mayf: looks like the work that was done with the Phantom (what an airplane!) must have been a sort-of (more subtle) precursor to the cargo prototype that Mayf was talking about. Again, not s
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00337.html (8,510 bytes)
- 277. RE: hypersonic LSR/Turbinator (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 03:59:07 -0500
- rumor in the pits is that Don V. resorted to the "up" exhaust to squelch any grousing about Turbinator being a "thrust" car. Yeah, everyone I've talked to thinks he was one of the best riders/ drive
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00339.html (8,878 bytes)
- 278. RE: Good engine site (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 05:59:20 -0500
- excellent "info" site. Thanks. Russ, #1226B I found a good site with lots of info on engines and components, including some useful formulas and stuff. Since there is a lot of talk about how various
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00342.html (7,534 bytes)
- 279. RE: hypersonic LSR (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 01:53:22 -0500
- F1 cars (you know-- the racing that FIA REALLY cares about) had the exact feature you described, for awhile-- and CART cars came pretty close to it (I think it was banned there before it really matu
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00363.html (9,019 bytes)
- 280. RE: hypersonic LSR (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 02:19:37 -0500
- yeah, I had heard that old expression about the Phantom. Got another tidbit for you: Did you know that the original Honda 6-cyl bike (like Tom Neimeyer races at Bonne) originally had the mufflers tu
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00365.html (9,611 bytes)
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